07/27/2009
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"We work with the states."
"Thank you for giving me the privilege of chairing this hearing today on an extremely timely topic, Ensuring Quality and Oversight in Assisted Living."
"what the Miami Herald chronicled was not conditions that the community would accept at all--to the contrary, to the point of absolute shock and revulsion."
"let's see what we can do, at least, to make the suggestions to the states for the ombudsmen to be more effective."